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Purple-Orange color enhanced closeup of dried rocks at the Natural Bridge across the Kicking Horse River.

Kicking Horse NB Purple Orange

Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase Kicking Horse Natural Bridge We were on our way back from Emerald lake when we stopped at the natural bridge on the Kicking Horse River. The turnoff to Emerald Lake is about a mile southwest of the Yoho National Park Visitor Center on the Trans-Canada Highway. After that, it’s about another mile and a half to […]

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Image of the Calgary Tower bathed in blue light

Calgary Tower Blues

What could be better than standing on the sidewalk outside the Calgary Tower on an early March evening? Anything. Literally anything. That could be too harsh. The temperature was a balmy freezing that night. When I was last in Calgary, this past January, the low was -26°C/-15°F. Needless to say, I wasn’t out on the streets that night. The Calgary Tower opened to the public on June 30, 1968. At that time is was the tallest building in Canada west […]

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Window In Time - View through the clock at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Window In Time

A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]

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